Friday, March 21, 2014

When I saw the two photohunter words I knew what technical work I would focus on.

Patterned by Nature is an exhibit in the Nature Research Center (part of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences). The exhibit celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity
into patterns through the scientific process, and through our
perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our
universe, across all scales of space and time.

10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through
the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD
glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer.
Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each
piece of glass.

The content cycles through twenty programs, ranging from clouds to
rain drops to colonies of bacteria to flocking birds to geese to
cuttlefish skin to pulsating black holes. The animations were created
through a combination of algorithmic software modeling of natural
phenomena and composting of actual footage.

An eight channel soundtrack accompanies the animations on the ribbon,
giving visitors clues to the identity of the pixelated movements. In
addition, two screens show high resolution imagery and text revealing
the content on the ribbon at any moment.

Gotta say -- this is one of those museums that I'd go to with my husband and he would absolutely revel in and love it and I would ask him for an explanation of everything (preferably the executive summary). I don't do well with tech stuff.

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I like to take photographs and I use blogging as a way to share my photography. I started blogging for other reasons but no longer feel the need or have the desire to write beyond a narrative for my photography.